Brian Wixted (PhD)

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Research Domain 2:       

The Value Architectures of Innovation

Blog: Econscapes http://econscapes.blogspot.ca/

Keywords

Innovation policy, innovation systems, nations, regions, clusters, cities, cluster complexes, trade networks, product modularity, bilateral trade, global value chains, platforms and industry architectures.

Introduction

Even in early cities there was a specialisation of activities, the blacksmith, priests etc. Today, the fragmentation of knowledge is leading to ever smaller fields of economic specialisation. It is important that this be understood at many levels but I focus on the macro.

Analysis

VALUE ARCHITECTURES: MACRO INNOV-NOMICS
Products, Industry and Geography (Clusters etc)	From Value Chains to Value Architectures
System Indicators and Measurement Ø Sectoral systems. As part of a team (Marceau, J., Wixted, B. and Basri, E. 2001) I worked on a report on the processed food innovation system in Australia.  A summary of the research was printed here. http://www.abare.gov.au/publications_html/regional/regional_02/foodstats02.pdf Ø Regional systems. Amongst a number of other projects, of particular note here is the report Prof Jane Marceau and I prepared (2001) for the New South Wales Government on that State’s innovation system. A version of the work was later presented at a conference and can be downloaded here: Ø National systems. Early in my career I worked on preparing indicator reports for the Australian government. Ø With Sam Garret Jones and Tim Turpin, 2003, we reported on the funding of R&D in Mozambique. A copy of the final version which was based on our work is available in Portuguese here:https://www.portaldogoverno.gov.mz/Informacao/ciencia_e_tecnologia/indcadores_c_t_moc.pdf Ø Knowledge Ecologies. Lately I have been working on developing a paper that is close to my long term interest on how to map the knowledge interactions in ‘innovation systems’. That is – what are the flows of codified, tacit, embodied and embrained knowledge between universities, government laboratories, all business sectors (primary, secondary and tertiary) and the community in general (ie society and non-profit sector).  You can download a paper on this topic at: http://www.sfu.ca/cprost/docs/Knowledge_ecologies-CPROST-GATECH.pdf	Modularity Ø Journal article on modularity submitted. Ø (2009) Innovation Systems Frontiers: Cluster Networks and Global Value, Springer.
GEM - Entrepreneurship Ø I am a member of the Canadian GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) team for 2013, 14 and 15. My interest in GEM is that it a measure of population’s entrepreneurship (and thus innovativeness) at the individual level.	Ø …..
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